Cairo and Nile Cruise 7 Days Private Tour Package with Airfare

What's Included

Meeting and pickup

Itinerary

Day 1
Arrival to Egypt
1 stop
1
Cairo
Welcome to Egypt! This is the beginning of a wonderful adventure in Egypt. for now, transfer to your hotel in Cairo.
Admission ticket free
Day 2
Day Tour to Giza pyramids and the Egyptian Museum
2 stops
2
Pyramids of Giza
Today visit the stunning pyramids and the Sphinx at the Giza Plateau. Sole survivors of the ancient Greek-listed Seven Wonders of the World, the pyramids are the planet’s oldest tourist attraction. Gaze in awe at Cheops (Khufu) – the largest of the three great pyramids. Constructed from over 2.5 million limestone blocks it is thought to have taken more than 20 years to construct.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
3
The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Continuing to the Egyptian Museum is acclaimed for its treasures of King Tutankhamun and his famous solid gold funerary mask. Then we offer an optional visit to the exotic Khan el Khalili Bazaar. Later, we transfer you back to your hotel to spend another nice night in Cairo before your domestic flight to Aswan the next morning.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 3
Aswan Nile cruise
3 stops
4
Aswan
Upon arrival, check-in for the Nile cruise in Aswan. rest for a while before lunch time. After lunch, the tour in Aswan start.
Admission ticket free
5
Aswan High Dam
The Aswan Dam, or more specifically since the 1980s, the Aswan High Dam, is one of the world's largest embankment dams, which was built across the Nile in Aswan, Egypt, between 1960 and 1970. When it was completed, it was the tallest earthen dam in the world, eclipsing the United States ' Chatuge Dam.
40 minutes • Admission ticket included
6
Temple of Philae
The Philae temple complex is an island-based temple complex in the reservoir of the Aswan Low Dam, downstream of the Aswan Dam and Lake Nasser, Egypt. Until the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, the temple complex was located on Philae Island, near the expansive First Cataract of the Nile in Upper Egypt. These rapids and the surrounding area have been variously flooded since the initial construction of the Aswan Low Dam in 1902. The temple complex was dismantled and moved to nearby Agilkia Island as part of the UNESCO Nubia Campaign project, protecting this and other complexes before the 1970 completion of the Aswan High Dam. The hieroglyphic reliefs of the temple complex are being studied and published by the Philae Temple Text Project of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 4
TEMPLE OF KING RAMSES II, ABU SIMBEL
2 stops
7
Abu Simbel Temple Complex
Abu Simbel – Aswan – Nile Cruise. Possibly the most awe-inspiring temple of all ancient Egypt, with its gargantuan rock-cut façade, the great Sun Temple of King Ramses II at Abu Simbel was created to revere the mighty pharaonic ruler King Ramses II. Ramses the Bold, Ramses the Great, and Ramses the Narcissist are perhaps all apt titles for one of ancient Egypt’s most powerful rulers. Celebrating a life that spanned nearly a centenary, Ramses had plenty of time for his more than 200 wives and concubines who produced some 96 sons and 60 daughters. Start this amazing trip to Abu Simbel in the early morning around 4:30 AM.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
8
Temple of Kom Ombo
Cruising & Kom Ombo. Nile cruising, Relax this afternoon after coming back from Abu Simbel as we sail the Nile. Later today, we visit the Temple of Kom Ombo. A unique riverside temple, it is unusual in that everything architecturally is doubled and perfectly symmetrical along the main axis of the temple, including twin halls, courts, colonnades, sanctuaries, and entrances.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 5
Sailing from Edfu to Luxor
3 stops
9
Temple of Horus
Today in the morning, we visit the temple of Horus in Edfu town, then sail again towards Esna Lock and Luxor. Edfu was one of several temples built during the Ptolemaic Kingdom, including the Dendera Temple complex, Esna, the Temple of Kom Ombo, and Philae. Its size reflects the relative prosperity of the time. The present temple, which was begun "on 23 August 237 BC, initially consisted of a pillared hall, two transverse halls, and a barque sanctuary surrounded by chapels." The building was started during the reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes and completed in 57 BC under Ptolemy XII Auletes. It was built on the site of an earlier, smaller temple also dedicated to Horus, although the previous structure was oriented east–west rather than north–south as in the present site. A ruined pylon lies just to the east of the current temple; inscriptional evidence has been found indicating a building program under the New Kingdom rulers Ramesses I, Seti I and Ramesses II.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
10
Karnak Open Air Museum
This afternoon, we tour the ancient city of Thebes (the East Bank), taking in the magnificent Temple of Karnak. The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak, comprises a vast mix of temples, pylons, chapels, and other buildings near Luxor, Egypt. Construction at the complex began during the reign of Senusret I in the Middle Kingdom and continued into the Ptolemaic Kingdom, although most of the extant buildings date from the New Kingdom. The area around Karnak was the ancient Egyptian Ipet-isut and the main place of worship of the 18th Dynastic Theban Triad, with the god Amun as its head. It is part of the monumental city of Thebes, and in 1979 it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List along with the rest of the city. The Karnak complex gives its name to the nearby, and partly surrounded, modern village of El-Karnak, 2.5 kilometres north of Luxor.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
11
Luxor Temple
Luxor temple looks stunning at dusk and is beautifully illuminated at night. The Luxor Temple is a large Ancient Egyptian temple complex located on the east bank of the Nile River in the city today known as Luxor and was constructed approximately 1400 BCE. In the Egyptian language it was known as ipet resyt, "the southern sanctuary". It was one of the two primary temples on the east bank, the other being Karnak. Unlike the other temples in Thebes, Luxor temple is not dedicated to a cult god or a deified version of the pharaoh in death. Instead, Luxor temple is dedicated to the rejuvenation of kingship; it may have been where many of the pharaohs of Egypt were crowned in reality or conceptually.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
Day 6
Luxor West bank tour
4 stops
12
Colossi of Memnon
Early this morning, we check out of our Nile cruise and visit the highlights of Luxor. The massive pair of statues known as the Colossi of Memnon are the first monuments you’ll see during our morning visit to the West Bank
20 minutes • Admission ticket included
13
Valley of the Kings
The royal graveyard of the kings of the new kingdom at the western bank of the Nile in Luxor town. Valley of the Kings, long narrow defile just west of the Nile River in Upper Egypt. It was part of the ancient city of Thebes and was the burial site of almost all the kings (pharaohs) of the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties (1539–1075 BCE), from Thutmose I to Ramses X. Located in the hills behind Dayr al-Baḥrī, the 62 known tombs exhibit variety both in plan and in decoration. In 1979 UNESCO designated the valley part of the World Heritage site of ancient Thebes, which also includes Luxor, the Valley of the Queens, and Karnak.
3 hours • Admission ticket included
14
Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el Bahari
The mortuary temple of Hatshepsut is a mortuary temple built during the reign of Pharaoh Hatshepsut of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Located opposite the city of Luxor, it is considered to be a masterpiece of ancient architecture. Its three massive terraces rise above the desert floor and into the cliffs of Deir el-Bahari. Her tomb, KV20, lies inside the same massif capped by El Qurn, a pyramid for her mortuary complex. At the edge of the desert, 1 km east, connected to the complex by a causeway lies the accompanying valley temple. Across the river Nile, the whole structure points towards the monumental Eighth Pylon, Hatshepsut's most recognizable addition to the Temple of Karnak and the site from which the procession of the Beautiful Festival of the Valley departed.
2 hours • Admission ticket included
15
Luxor
after finishing this tour, we transfer you to Luxor airport to fly back to Cairo , then back to your hotel in Cairo to spend another night
Admission ticket free
Day 7
Cairo Airport for final departure
1 stop
16
Cairo
This morning's adventure comes to an end with Included departure transfer to the airport for your international flight.
Admission ticket free

Additional info

• Wheelchair accessible
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels

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